Please Sir - S01E03 - Maureen Bullock Loves Sir
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00:30No Duffy, the GLC will not allow us to do Mickey Spillane as our set book.
00:59That's a bit more lively than bleeding Romeo and Juliet isn't it?
01:04Lively? Well let me tell you something, Romeo and Juliet if you really look at it
01:08is a bit more sexy than his hot eyes seared through her flimsy dress, Romeo
01:17and Juliet is generally accepted to be one of the most beautiful love stories
01:21ever written. He is right because Romeo was a good sincere Catholic boy. That's right Maureen and
01:31Abbott's got him down as that geezer what was Andy with his blade. Well he was
01:36wasn't he? He kills two blokes on one page. Yeah the ice would have got away with it
01:41too if his mate hadn't have grasped at a prince. Betrayed Duffy, yes let's get back to the
01:46the balcony scene for Romeo and Juliet. Are you gonna read it to us sir? No no
01:50we're all play different parts this time. Now Duffy, from what I hear of your
01:55out-of-school activities you'd make rather a good Romeo. Now who's gonna play
02:02Juliet to our star-crossed lover here? Don't look at me. Come on somebody's got to do it.
02:09Right. Duffy, Duffy, you're not embarrassed are you? No of course you're not. Well pick your own Juliet then.
02:18Sharon. Thank you Dame Edith. Right from where we left it Sharon? Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
02:33I'm in a bleeding garden. No no Duffy, wherefore means why are you, not where are you. Carry on Sharon.
02:41Deny thy father, refuse thy name, or if thou wilt not be but sworn my love, or I'll no longer be a. Capulet.
02:53Yeah well whatever that means. Duffy what are you doing? This is a side here isn't it, a side.
03:00Yes well you're supposed to be talking to the audience not passing on a racing tip.
03:04All right, all right. Shall I fear more or shall I speak of this? No you get your full penny work in Romeo.
03:14Shut up Peter. He's supposed to be in love. Well why did he blow me? Well get on with it then.
03:20Well he is, it's the way he says it. All right Duffy sit down. Thank you very much. Thank you.
03:24Now look I shall read the part of Romeo.
03:28Oh with another Juliet I think. Right, right Maureen, good. Now then Juliet comes out onto her balcony at night overlooking the garden.
03:41Hoot, hoot.
03:46Um pardon me Dunstable. Hoot, hoot. Yes I heard the hoot hoot, why? It's an owl. An owl? He's in the garden.
03:57Very good. Right, uh good. Uh there we are then Maureen.
04:06Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo? Hoot, hoot.
04:16Thank you Dunstable, yes. Ah good. Well uh here is this beautiful girl.
04:22And now you can see why when Romeo first sees her he says. Hoot, hoot.
04:34But soft what light from yonder window breaks. It is the east and Juliet is the sun.
04:46I don't know whether any of you noticed but the school bell's gone.
04:49All right I'll spend a weekend in a darkened room and we'll take up cudgels again on Monday.
04:53Huh? It's a bell, it's a bell. Hear it not Duffy for it is the knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.
05:02Huh?
05:07I think sir's right. I think it's a lovely love story. Yeah kiddo. All them medieval mods ever done was chat.
05:14I mean they never got down to nothing did they? Yeah rubbish. They did in the film.
05:18They got right down to starkers in the film. Look I'll tell you one line I do see the sense in.
05:24What's that Eric? Well that line that says ho what light in yonder window shines. How come?
05:28Well the light I'm talking about is in the window of the feathers. Come on now be open sir.
05:35You are edges you're mud. Why? Because I had a choice of schools and I chose Fenn Street.
05:42Well I don't see what more proof you want. The price I saw that other school. Richmond it was
05:46fantastic facilities. All the kids wearing school uniforms. I didn't see one dirty word
05:51written on a wall. Oh are there places like that in the outside world? My point is that that school
05:56didn't need me. And we do I suppose. Who do you think you are Florence Nightingale? You know what
06:00I mean Price. There's there's more of a challenge here. Oh granted the last teacher to commit
06:05suicide wins a coconut challenge. Teaching here is a bloody penance. Then you start flagellating
06:09yourself by coming to live in the district. Price have you read Up the Junction? That book had
06:14something to say you know. Oh I only saw Susie Kendall in the film and oh she didn't have to say
06:20a word. What are you on about? It's just that I think I'll be able to understand these kids if I
06:26know more about their background. There's no better way of doing that than coming to live in the
06:29district. I know it's a bit rough but it's vital. It's alive. Alive? It's bloody infested.
06:44Um did you just put a rabbit in your briefcase? Aye. You taking up conjuring?
06:55No they sent us down to for biology you know dissection. Oh I see and you're uh taking it
07:01home to do some work on it in preparation for class on Monday. No I'm having it for supper
07:07and I'll go up the road for a few. No I tell a lie several and by closing time all the horrors
07:13of fencing would have disappeared in a beautiful alcoholic haze. What are you doing over the
07:17weekend sticking pins in yourself? I've got to give that the whips and miss actually.
07:22No I've got to move some furniture in. I booked a booked a van for nine o'clock in the morning.
07:25Oh god all this and he gets up early in the Saturday mornings. Look what happened to Smithy?
07:30He went to the loo about 20 minutes ago. Well he's probably fallen asleep in there.
07:33He falls asleep everywhere else. Ah talk of the devil.
07:38Oh god look Lawrence of Arabia.
07:45Just brought my head in to say good night. Meeting at Victoria coach station this evening and then
07:49off to the Chilterns for the weekend. I don't see how you're going to referee the school
07:53football match tomorrow Smithy. They'll never hear your whistle from there.
07:55Oh no no no no it's someone standing in. It's all arranged.
08:02Thank you.
08:02You've taken the wife with you? Oh of course.
08:10Oh imagine I a great great hill and heather people you know. We didn't take it up until
08:16we were in our 50s but I've been rambling ever since. We have noticed.
08:22Marvellous comes in like Lawrence of Arabia and goes out looking like that.
08:26Not too bad.
08:35Oh god what a thought. Him and Mudge disporting themselves in the heather.
08:40Fancy a quick one? Yes all right by all. Good morning.
08:49You didn't expect to see me down there did you? And cut our head master.
08:53Uh no no we didn't sir. No my point exactly or rather Pavlov's. You see
08:58you heard the knock and you naturally looked towards where a normal person's head would be.
09:04Yes it is fun isn't it? Science is fun isn't it? Price you're a scientist. Why don't you try this
09:10one? No thanks headmaster. Oh well choke over I suppose. Oh uh Hedges I wonder could you could
09:18you spare me a moment? Oh well as a matter of fact sir I was just. Oh well it was about your career
09:23though. Oh uh would you like to go on ahead price? No it's all right but wait for me. Right.
09:30Aloha Hedges. Now how long have you been the lusty infant of our little family?
09:35Uh well this is the end of my second week sir. In that case great strides Hedges great strides.
09:41Well uh thank you very much sir. Now um be frank do you feel ready to extend the area of your
09:47responsibility? Yes I think I do sir. So do I. There sir whistle. Yes football match school
09:56tomorrow Monday morning half past nine on the common. Well done Hedges you're a free. Good night.
10:06Here you are join the bunny club.
10:17Next week run Dawn.
10:38Fruitball you fairy wedner. Don't look at the bleeding big party.
10:47Filthy dirty foul. Did you see that Morrie elbowed Peter deliberate then?
10:53You don't know what it's all about do you? No not really. I don't know why you come up here.
10:59Well you don't usually. Why today?
11:04Over here come on.
11:06Hello Maureen. Hello sir.
11:15Right that is it. I wonder why you wore your bunny. Well off it is.
11:23What a bleeding time ball. Ben Street ball.
11:27All right I saw that. I saw a handball.
11:32It's out of play.
11:36Oh good. Well come on Wagner move.
11:43Oh hasn't he got lovely legs eh?
11:48Well I don't like them hairy.
11:52I thought you had a thing about him the way you always blush when he talks to you in class.
11:56Oh I don't do I sir? I've changed color my pen stick haven't I? It's quite nice
12:03but I don't really see it because it's blue. It is it. I mean other qualities
12:10they're important to your man. Yeah they would be for you Maureen. I see that.
12:19Another unlucky five nil thrashing. That third one was offside. I gotta check this in oh I really
12:25am. Don't you play 4-3-3 with two full formers and Daisy Wagner in her team. That's why I don't play
12:32told you before. You want to play my brother Mundy's Sunday team with me. Fishers. And they're
12:37the glass eyed people. Optical aids. You don't work for them. It's all mates of mates isn't it?
12:45Yeah well I'm a thrashing like this and I'm on a transfer list. All right Craig we've only changed.
12:51Sorry about that third goal. I'm not too sure of the offside. It is right that's all right.
12:55Might have known. Hey you coming over to Bairnstown cave for a cup of tea then Chin? Oh yeah.
12:59Uh well no I can't. I'm supposed to be moving into a new flat today. I did have a van. What
13:05you mean you give it up? Just referee a match for your pupils. Oh I got lumbered. Yes yes I did.
13:11See what I mean other qualities. There's no problem there. You should have seen me first. Probably
13:16bought me dad's van. Oh well that's very kind of you Duffy but I don't think I could. Right
13:20that's settled then. I'll give him a tinkle. Peter. Dr. Bairnstown cave on the end. We'll pick
13:25my dad up down the feathers.
13:41Well you see Bernard it's not often I get a chance to have a drink with one of my
13:45lads teachers. Yes Mr. Duffy but I didn't expect the kids to come into the pub as well.
13:50I took it for granted. Took it for granted. You take it for granted. Usual thing around here.
13:54Is it? Look you teach a kid the whys and wherefores of drinking. Now that's better than them sloping
14:00off on their own and making a fool of themselves on half a shandy. Oh yes when Sharon was drinking
14:05vodka and lime. She's a girl ain't she? Yes uh look it's not that I want to appear uh narrow-minded
14:13Mr. Duffy. Bert. Bert but a teacher mying around of drinks for his class is just a bit unusual.
14:19Well I put that down as a mark to you Bern. You see I think a lot of teachers think they're better
14:25than what we are. I mean they probably are but it's them fidget that they are that gets up my
14:30nose if you catch my drift. Now whereas you you come across as just an ordinary bloke. Oh I am
14:35I'm ever so ordinary. What am I supposed to say Bern? Yes well I um meeting people parents like you
14:45is going to help me find out what makes these kids tick. Yeah well if you do find out let us
14:49know won't you? Well look I better be off. I uh keep the wife waiting for me dinner and bang goes
14:55me Saturday night cocoa. Cocoa? Look um I'm I'm very grateful for your help Bert. Where did the
15:04kids go? Well uh they went off when you was in the other room uh going over the chart and I think.
15:08Oh yeah by the way do you smoke? Well yes I uh I do as a matter of fact.
15:14Here pop that say nothing. Oh no no I couldn't. Oh look it's all right they fell off the back of a
15:21lorry. Cheers Bern. Oh cheers Bert. Here don't forget snooker Monday I'll pick you up from school.
15:28Right.
15:43Oh Maureen I uh. Having a little dance are you sir? Yes yes I was having a little um yes um
15:53I thought you'd gone. I just washed the tea things for you. Oh well that's uh that's very sweet of
15:57you Maureen. Um well bye-bye then. She your girlfriend? Yes she um no no no no that's uh
16:13that's just a girl I knew. But you don't know her now? No no I uh no I don't know her now. Good.
16:22Um. Sir. Yes Maureen.
16:30Here on your coat. Right good right uh right uh well I don't want to uh I don't want to. Yeah well I've
16:35got to go anyway. Thanks very much for your help Maureen. That's all right. How old was she?
16:41Thanks very much for your help Maureen. That's all right.
16:44How old was she? On the photograph she was 18 then. I'll be 18 in two years time.
16:53Right good um well off we go then.
18:11So
18:35mind you I'm not saying that the girl didn't have a perfectly legitimate reason for being in his
18:40flat alone. Yes but you and I weren't born yesterday Mrs. Pierce. Well that's the feeling
18:46in the flats and all. Yes well you know me Mrs. Pierce I'm no blackner of characters you know
18:52but their young ages. It's only been here two weeks and I've got him down as definitely shifty.
18:57Oh well I like him. Oh well I mean I have nothing against him you know but I mean
19:04well all this it's uh it's sordidity isn't it? Mind you in the first place this all came from
19:11Mrs. Wagner and I wouldn't take her word as gospel for all her wall-to-wall carpeting and fish knives.
19:18Yeah of course Wagner is a jerry name all right you know. But her husband's in the British Legion.
19:26And it's a well-known fact you know Mrs. Pierce that the Germans are a truthful people.
19:29All right. Here you're not thinking of making trouble for young Mr. Edges are you? Because I
19:35wouldn't have told you if I thought that. Mrs. Pierce as an administrative executive
19:39I do not trade willy-nilly in idle gossip. Mr. Potter as a shammy leather executive
19:46neither do I and I am knocking off. Oh right well off you go then.
19:52Good morning Mrs. Armitage. Pierce.
19:55Early bird catches the worm.
19:57Good morning Potter. Early bird catches the worm eh?
19:59Very witty that one sir. Very witty.
20:01There's so much paperwork Edges I thought I'd just catch a quick half hour of peace and quiet before our little world explodes in noisy activity.
20:16Ah yes indeed sir yes indeed sir but uh promise me headmaster one thing uh promise me you won't overdo it sir.
20:21Overdo what Potter? Well I mean no one knows better than I sort of all the amount of man-hours you put in here.
20:28A joyful burden Potter. Well hey-ho hey-ho as off to work we go.
20:34Sir I uh I hate to trouble you sir but there is something rather sinister that ought to be brought
20:39to your notice. Sinister? Oh dear not cook again? Uh no sir no but I have reason to believe that one of
20:47your teachers is a sexual pervert.
20:57When most I wink then do my eyes best see for all the day they view things unrespected
21:07but when I sleep in dreams they look on thee and darkly bright are bright in dark directed
21:16then thou whose shadows shadows doth make bright how would thy shadows form form happy show
21:23to the clear day with thy much clearer light when to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so.
21:35Well what do you think of that? Right load of old moody. People don't talk like that these days do
21:42they? Uh no they don't uh Duffy but that's not the point. I don't talk like that do I?
21:48Well I think it is the poem's about love right? That love yes uh the uh the sonnet Sharon yes yes.
21:53And some fella in them days might have said it to a girl to see if he could get her going right?
21:58Uh get her going uh well uh basically speaking yes. Well if some fella said it to me he wouldn't
22:03get me going because I wouldn't know what the hell he was talking about. She's done you there chief.
22:09Sharon hasn't done anybody.
22:14All right I'll accept Sharon's point that this is Elizabethan language and therefore hardly likely
22:19to be used in present day. What I'm trying to make you understand and appreciate is the power
22:25of the language itself. Well when it comes to pulling birds Frankie Abbott don't need no language.
22:30It's all action with me. Abbott why do you persist in this ridiculous posturing?
22:35What? Chilling bloody lies. No I ain't Eric. I've had plenty of women in my time.
22:41But we are talking about Shakespeare Shakespeare not James Joyce. Who's he when he's at home?
22:48Oh well James Joyce. Frankie does go out with girls because I seen him. Where? Around the flats.
22:55Thank you Dunstable yes. Uh James Joyce was an Irish writer who wrote Ulysses. He was playing
23:02kiss chase. All his little sister's mates. I was getting my sister in for tea.
23:14I shall confiscate every cigarette in this room.
23:18That's better. Now Abbott and James Joyce can wait for another day. We are discussing the
23:23sonnet of Shakespeare's which I just read. Now Sharon I believe you had something to say.
23:27What? I lost the thread now haven't I?
23:31Ah um Maureen. Maureen Maureen you've been very quiet.
23:43The sonnet of Shakespeare's uh what did you think of it? I thought it was lovely. Yeah and I know
23:48why. Shut up you. Abbott now tell me Maureen why in particular did you like the sonnet?
23:54Because you've got such a lovely reading voice.
24:00That's not really what I meant. I know what she means though.
24:03Shut up big mouth. Maureen. Well.
24:24Exactly. What is it Mr Potter? The headmaster would like to see you
24:32in the staff room. Oh what does he want now? As if you didn't know.
24:37Look I've got to go and see the headmaster. Carry on uh looking at the sonnet which I just read.
24:45All right then all right then all right. What's been going on here then?
24:49Nose nose. What what? Try keeping it out of other people's business hey. Now look here sonny Jim.
24:58If I was your father. If you was my father mate I'd have run away from home years ago. I could
25:04put that down in my report book you know. Yeah. Do you mind I'm trying to study my Shakespeare
25:08ain't I? Shakespeare? I bet you don't even know who he is. Oh yeah I bet you don't know who James
25:15Joyce is. Eh? Who? He was Irish and he wrote Useless. You see? Dead nose. What sort of eye?
25:25Useless? I know that good I do. Right go on get on with it. I have got to get your milk ready.
25:45Thank you.
25:59Well Hedges.
26:14On Friday I said great strides didn't I? Yes you did sir twice. Yes well you know
26:21what I'm saying today Hedges? Not yet sir no. I'm saying I'm saying oh dear oh dear.
26:27Oh you mean Saturday sir? Ah there's merit in a clean breast Doris. Well it was only a game sir.
26:36A game? Was there or was there not a young girl present? Oh yes sir there were two. Two? Well they
26:42were only watching. Watching? Yes well I I wasn't quite sure of the rules sir. Well look I'm sure I
26:49can do much better when I get the hang of it. You can't win them all sir. What is he talking about
26:55Doris? The school football match I believe headmaster. Oh I see he's lost the thread again.
27:02Hedges you've lost the thread again. Oh have I sir? Yes now I am going to be succinct. You are
27:09oh I say that's a nice tie where did you get it? You are a young man and young men quite naturally
27:15have um have uh sexual urges right?
27:25Well yes.
27:28Now Hedges do you suffer from um s urges? Well I quite enjoy them as a matter of fact.
27:38Hedges are you sure that you are revealing both ends of your spectrum?
27:46Are you accusing me of being a homosexual sir?
27:51Sit down and listen to the headmaster. Yes but he just. Unruffle your feathers young man. Unruffle
27:56your feathers. Sit down. Now nobody is accusing you of anything and I shall pass no judgment
28:02until I have all the evidence in my possession. Evidence? What evidence? The situation is delicate
28:08yes razor sharp one might say but I want you to know Hedges that I never did approve the methods
28:13of Senator Robert McCarthy. Doris that's all that you can get. Oh Hedges. Hedges.
28:27He's cracked up. He's lost his marbles.
28:33Dare you never let the headmaster's somewhat abstract method of conversation blind you to
28:39the fact that he has a fine agile and sensitive mind? Well maybe but I haven't the foggiest idea
28:44what he's talking about. Was or was not Maureen Bullock alone in your flat on Saturday? No all
28:50the kids were there. They were helping me to move. Oh yes she was there on her own but only for about
28:55five minutes. Long enough. Long enough for what? And when she left did you or did you not bid her
29:03an affectionate farewell? Yes I waved to her. Is that what this is all about? What this is all about
29:10is the version of the affair which reached our ears via a long line of idle and malicious gossip
29:15typical of this district. Well isn't that bloody marvelous. Language. I suppose the version you
29:21heard was that Maureen came running out of the flat stripped to the waist screaming blue murder
29:25with me after saying come back my little love I haven't had my evil way with you yet.
29:30I find that singularly unamusing. Yeah well I'm not exactly tickled to death.
29:34How on earth did it get back here? Don't tell me. Potter. Innocent and absolutely incident
29:41innocent. Um innocent incident and nothing at all and it comes out soundly like one of the
29:45juicy bits in Aletheia and what gets me is you believe it. Of course I don't. You don't even give
29:49me the credit for you you don't believe it. Of course not. Oh thank you. You may be headstrong
29:56self-opinionated and immature but I do not have you down as a lecher. Well that's extremely kind
30:01of you. The point which you are missing entirely is that a teacher outside school is in an extremely
30:09vulnerable position. Anything he does is open to misinterpretation. Anything. All right now tell
30:15me this. Was having a drink with Mr Duffy in a pub on Saturday open to misinterpretation?
30:19Of course. It could quite easily be seen as you favoring his child. Well I'm afraid I've got you
30:24there Miss Shaw because it wasn't only his son that was in the pub with us. His son? There was
30:28Sharon, Maureen. I didn't let them buy a round of drinks. And I suppose you spent the rest of
30:35the afternoon in a gambling casino and then went on to a strip club. You say the Chinese invented
30:41the rocket smithy? I think it was Doris Watten you were. Yes I haven't heard a word from Hedges
30:47for quite three minutes. You don't think he's died of fright and she hasn't noticed? What?
30:51Oh. What are you laughing at? Price made a joke I think. And what are you both doing here? I'm
31:00waiting to get something for my locker. I didn't want to dumb your flow of invective see. And you?
31:04I've just got a free period. I wanted somewhere to sit down.
31:08Oh.
31:17Ah. Used the lighted matches under the fingernails did she? Oh she didn't be a
31:21bonkers old bitch when she wants to be. Still she didn't frighten me. Oh then why are you smoking
31:25too fast? Oh. Do you know what she said? Yes. We were listening. I'll tell you what's worse. What?
31:33She's bloody right. What am I supposed to do outside school? Walk around with a paper bag
31:38up on my head? Not a bad idea. Just don't get involved old man. Teachers are somehow expected
31:44to be paragons of virtue. But I didn't do anything wrong. No. Neither did I in 1952.
31:51Except perhaps care for a child more than the parents seem to. But it lost me my chance of
31:56ever being a headmaster. The first thing you've got to do is to remember to always keep at least
32:00three desks between you and Miss Maureen Bullock. It's obvious she fancied you something rotten.
32:04School girl crush. She... Do you know I disgust myself sometimes. Why do you fancy her as well?
32:14I've been thinking about how all this affects me. How does that young child feel?
32:18Can you manage to kneel down Smithy? I think we've got a prayer meeting coming up.
32:22And a parent says they must be terribly upset. That's it.
32:26If Dolly's yule is so damn clever why didn't she think of it?
32:31I just know that boy's going to do something rash. He's glowing with an inner light.
32:36Ah the trouble is one of these days he's set fire to his bloody self.
32:48I know Sharon. You go on. I'd like to have a word with Maureen alone.
32:55Yes.
33:07Now Maureen I suppose you've heard some of these silly rumours. Yes sir.
33:15Yes well you and I know that they are completely groundless. They're not really are they?
33:20What do you what do you mean Maureen? I can't help having feelings. Women do.
33:26Yes and um I'm deeply touched Maureen. I'm yes I'm I'm very touched.
33:32Only it's people thinking you're a dirty old man I hate.
33:42Oh don't don't cry Maureen. There there.
33:44Oh yes yes yes yes. Oh hanky sorry. There we are.
34:03All right now?
34:04There there Maureen. There there. No trouble. There there.
34:11Dad! Dad! Dad!
34:15Mr Bullock.
34:19Well you know me Miss Yule. I hate to make trouble for other people but I have to report
34:23that Mr Hedges and that Bullock girl are at it again. And while I'm waiting for Mr Hedges
34:31in one of my classrooms. At what? Well it. Well no it it. They were embracing brazenly.
34:43Oh yes and now it seems the girl has really got something to worry about and all.
34:47Oh that man. Exactly he's filthy. I warn you Potter you'd better be right.
34:55Have no fear about that Miss Yule. When it comes to filth I can vouch for myself.
35:01One more word and I'll put this right down the back of your throat. That's what I'll say Mr Hedges
35:11if ever I find out who started this slander. Well libelous that's what it is. Well I'm just
35:15grateful you agreed to come and see me Mr Bullock. At least we've sorted things out.
35:19It was very decent of you to ask me. Mr Hedges. Miss Yule this is Maureen's father.
35:26Oh Mr Bullock how did you? I asked him to come. And you did what? Very glad I was too.
35:33Well of course I knew there was nothing in this right from the start. I know my Maureen she's a
35:36good girl and now I've met Mr Hedges I can see that he's a thoroughly above board fellow.
35:43The whole situation is finished as far as I'm concerned. Oh you're very generous Mr Bullock.
35:47Not me. There is the credit. Yes quite. You must think it's a very lucky having a young gentleman
35:53of Mr Bernard's caliber on your teaching business. Oh yes we're we're all very pleased with
36:01Bernard. Well that's very sweet of you Doris.
36:08Well Maureen home to our tea. Thank you Mr Hedges. Good night. Thank you again Miss Yule.
36:14Good night Mr Bullock. Say good night to your teachers Maureen. Good night Miss Yule. Good
36:21night Maureen. Good night sir. Good night Maureen yes. Well I'm glad we've sorted that one out.
36:29Mr Hedges earlier today I called you headstrong self-opinionated and immature. Yes there's no
36:36need to apologize Miss Yule. You are also extraordinarily lucky staying alone with the
36:41child after school seeing a parent without any official backing. He's a very reasonable man.
36:47And if he hadn't been I might quite well have come in here to find you both
36:51brawling on the floor. Don't you see? Yes I suppose. I thought so.
36:59You need any assistance Miss Yule? No no no. I'm sure you'll agree that I did quite right to report
37:05what was going on between that young man and the girl. So that's it. I've a good mind to stick your
37:12administrative hat right up your... Mr Hedges. Mr Potter was quite within his rights to report a
37:20doubtful situation on school premises. But he wasn't within his rights to make a lot of local
37:24gossip sound like intended rape to the headmaster and I'm gonna... You will do nothing. Now kindly
37:29leave us. Oh thank you very much Miss Yule. Thank you. I'm very glad to see you didn't take the part
37:37of that upstart against an old desert rat. In your case Mr Potter, rat is the operative word.
37:45What? How dare you malign a member of my staff with nothing more than licentious chit-chat.
37:51It was my duty. Your duty is to the good name of this school not to the local fish wives. Mrs Wyandling
37:56keeps a wall shut. Should this country ever be cursed with the Gestapo you will undoubtedly
38:01find your niche. Until then kindly remember that you are nothing more than a glorified cleaner.
38:06I'm not a cleaner. I'm certainly not a cleaner. I'm an administrative executive.
38:18Fair enough Miss Yule. No more involvement with with kids or parents. Good. Ah very boy. Mr Duffy.
38:25There you are. Come along with me son. Got a table booked for six o'clock. So it's dinner with a
38:30parent now is it? No no snooker. Good then. Um unavoidable. Nonsense. Oh this lady one of your
38:38mates Edburn. No no this oh well this is Miss Yule the assistant headmaster. Oh one of the knobs eh?
38:43Well I'm pleased to meet you Mrs Yule. Oh Mr Duffy always happy to meet a parent. Yeah yeah right
38:50then. Oh here by the way love do you smoke? No not really. Oh never mind eh. Here here cop this lot.
38:58Say nothing. No really. No it's all right it's all right. Any mate of Burns is a mate of mine.
39:03Well come on Burn.
39:17It's all right Doris. I fell off the back of a lorry.
39:28So
39:58do
40:15you